doublelongdaddy;647642 said:
And like I said before, pretending to be something you want to be is a very powerful tool for personal, mental manifestation, where it becomes an issue is when someone takes it public and pretends instead of actually doing the work to get there.
Right, there is actually a famous business coach (Dan Pena) who calls this "smell the leather", as in going to the Rolls Royce Dealer-ship, and "smelling the leather" before you can afford one, and so on. This would have been the productive thing to do, and you hit it on the head when you said that it's about the relationship that you have with your ambitions/desire for increased capability, and the need to channel that towards taking productive action, instead of engaging in self-sabotage.
Update: Well, the "worst" thing that I have done since making that post, was today at a clothing store I realized that there were some pants I wanted to try (just went there to look at some shirts), and ended up trying on a pair of their pants w/ no under-wear (Uncle Jim's Wrap, obviously).
I feel terrible, and in the event that I am in there (again), I will obviously have to either apologize to the guy, and come clean, since I feel like sh*t about that, and offer to buy the pants, wash them, and then return them, etc.
Other than that, I think that I have been pretty honest, though, and have had no desire to look at any type of sexual internet material, which is good.
The closest that such material has reached, is P.E. research/threads, and it's traumatic to even see the various advertisements for things like the
Bath-Mate, since I feel compelled to just report my viewing of anything related to naked bodies on the internet to the thread now (the thread is made for me, and the idea is by admitting such things publicly, there is such pain linked to even a
smidgeon of these behaviors that I have no choice but to change, and feel better because of it). As for the other stuff, it had to be public, so that my brain would flip the associations w/ this kind of thing, as now there is
no amount of money that one could pay me to even be in the same room as any video related to �naked people movies�, or anything like that. (Those who doubt this are encouraged to physically present me with a blank check or large sum of cash, and I will be happy to either hand it back to them or rip it up in front of them and walk away, which-ever they prefer.)
I had a friend who did something similar with �naked people movies� awhile ago, in that he was talking with a girl that he was seeing, and he started reading her all of the titles of the �naked people movies� that he liked, or something like that, and I believe that it helped him a lot. I guess the point is that it seems like the most effective method(s) involve some type of specific detail on what you have been doing combined w/ personal responsibility, in which your name is actually attached, and something is "at stake", so to speak.